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• To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self.

  George Sand

  Forgiveness, Self, Sublime

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• We must love stupid people better than ourselves; are they not the really unfortunate ones of this world? Do not people without taste and without ideal grow constantly weary, rejoicing in nothing, and being quite useless here below?

  George Sand

  Stupid, Ambition, People

  George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.13, Cosimo, Inc.

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• All your trouble comes from lack of exercise. A man of your strength and constitution ought always to have kept physically active. So don't jibe at the very wise advice that sentences you to one hour's walk a day. You imagine the work of the mind takes place only in the brain; but you're much mistaken. It takes place in the legs as well.

  George Sand

  Wise, Exercise, Men

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• The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.

  George Sand

  Powerful, Writing, Men

  George Sand (2000). “Indiana”, p.158, OUP Oxford

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• As far as I am concerned I would rather spend the rest of my life in prison than marry again.

  George Sand

  Prison, Concerned

  George Sand (1977). “The Intimate Journal of George Sand”, Chicago Review Press

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• Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.

  George Sand

  Beautiful, Art, Phrases

  Letter to Alexandre Saint-Jean, 1872

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• Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

  George Sand

  Aggravation, Charity, Philanthropy Giving

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• Anything we destroy in ourselves we destroy in others. Our falls lower others and throw them down; we owe it to our fellows to keep upright, in order that they too may keep their feet.

  George Sand

  Fall, Order, Feet

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• I needn't tell you that success and failure prove nothing - the whole thing is a lottery. It's pleasant to succeed; but for a philosophic mind it oughtn't to be very upsetting to fail.

  George Sand

  Upset, Mind, Succeed

  Gustave Flaubert, George Sand (1999). “Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert & George Sand”, Harvill Press

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• Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

  George Sand

  Admiration, Stranger, Aeroplanes

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• You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing.

  George Sand

  Hands, Ties, Add

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• It is always the best friends who are neglected and ignored.

  George Sand

  Friends, Ignored, Neglected

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• Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretends you are faultless - one who will caress the hand that strikes her and kiss the lips that lie to her.

  George Sand

  Lying, Kissing, Hands

  Letter (17 June 1837) in "The Intimate Journal of George Sand" translated and edited by Marie Jenney Howe, 1929.

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• The lessons of experience are always learned too late.

  George Sand

  Experience, Too Late, Lessons

  Gustave Flaubert, George Sand, Alphonse Jacobs (1993). “Flaubert - Sand: the correspondence”, Vintage

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• honesty dies in selling itself.

  George Sand

  Honesty, Selling, Dies

  George Sand, George Burnham Ives, Mary Webb Artois, J. Alfred Burgan “The Masterpieces of George Sand: Mauprat”

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• Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

  George Sand

  Happiness, Happy, People

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• Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect

  George Sand

  Selfish, Self Respect, Self

  George Sand (2000). “Indiana”, p.145, Chicago Review Press

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• nature has not changed. The night is still unsullied, the stars still twinkle, and the wild thyme smells as sweetly now as it did then ... We may be afflicted and unhappy, but no one can take from us the sweet delight which is nature's gift to those who love her and her poetry.

  George Sand

  Sweet, Nature, Stars

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• The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine.

  George Sand

  Passion, Divine, Capacity

  "The Intimate Journal of George Sand".

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• When they are among us cats are angels

  George Sand

  Cat, Angel, Pet

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• Masterpieces are only lucky attempts.

  George Sand

  Lucky, Masterpiece

  George Sand (1930). “The Country Waif”, p.22, U of Nebraska Press

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• Not to love is to cease to live.

  George Sand

  Love Is, Cease

  Gustave Flaubert, George Sand (2015). “The Correspondence of George Sand and Gustave Flaubert: Collected Letters of the Most Influential French Authors”, p.150, e-artnow

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• The world will know and understand me someday. But if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter. I shall have opened the way for other women.

  George Sand

  Doe, World, Matter

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• Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?

  George Sand

  Regret, Struggle, Heart

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• fretting at trouble only doubles it.

  George Sand

  Trouble, Fretting

  Gustave Flaubert, George Sand, Alphonse Jacobs (1993). “Flaubert - Sand: the correspondence”, Vintage

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